HTM 2170 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Wing

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Hospitality and Tourism Management
• Course: HTM 2170
• Professor: Marion Joppe

Document Summary

Week two: child sex tourism and political ideologies. Tourism denotes that this is a legitimate business. Also denotes that a child is an object; not an individual with rights, and is a tourist attraction. Often parents sell their children into the trade. They aren"t earning enough and need the children income to help. Conservative estimates suggest 2 million children are victims of commercial sex exploitation through abuse images, trafficking, etc. Developing countries have the highest rates of child sex exploitation in tourism. Epcat partners with the tourism and travel industry. Campaigns targeting potential child sex offenders through: Awareness-raising to general public on what their role is. Code of conduct for protection of children from sexual exploitation in travel and tourism. Through media and advertising capitalists create false sense that citizens need products and service which capitalism has to offer. Criticizes capitalism for subsidizing at public expense leisure services and infrastructure upon which profitable businesses are built.